Please note that we will respond only to candidates who meet the above requirements

Only short listed consultants will be replied to.

If you wish to submit your candidature, please send us:

1 – Your up dated and position-adjusted CV in EU AID format, in the language of vacancy and as word.doc detailing qualifications, experience in similar assignments. CVs in other format than EU format will not be evaluated.

2 – The country, no of position/field (s) you will apply for in the subject line of message

Suggestions: Please make sure, that the experience requested is also shown “Description” section 14 of your CV. As the selections are very strict and paper based, we request you to prepare your CV in the right format and detail all the relevant experience under the Professional experience table as much as possible. There is no problem if your CV is long, the most important is to prepare so that it describes clearly your experiences relevant to the mission. (Your CV has to sell you!)

Restrictions: In case consultants are short listed, they must be able to provide documentary evidence for educational and professional items in their CVs (copies of diplomas, copies of employers’ reference letters, etc.). Documents those are not available in English have to be accompanied by a faithful translation. This is mandatory requirement for Europe Aid tenders.

DESCRIPTION

3. EXPERTISE REQUIRED

 Number of requested experts per category and number of man-days per expert or per category

The work will be conducted by two senior category experts, which combined qualifications and experience should meet the minimum expertise requirements defined below. The maximum total number of man-days foreseen in this contract is 182 (including travel and home-based working days). Two home-based working days are foreseen tentatively for each of the experts to precede the first mission in Jordan and two home-based working days for each expert after completion of the first mission in Jordan. Further use of home based working days should be approved by the EU Delegation in advance. There is no objection to 6 day working week during the first mission in Jordan. Further weekly work schedules are subject to prior approval of the EU Delegation.

 Minimum expertise required:

– Category and duration of equivalent experience

Education

Advanced university degree in economics, education, sociology, administration or other relevant subject, or as equivalent a university degree and three years of relevant experience in addition to the minimum general professional experience specified below.

General professional experience

-At least 10 years’ experience in the sector(s) directly related to the lot;

-A high degree of competence in drafting reports, well-structured and in a consistent and concise manner (sample of a report delivered earlier by each expert to be annexed to the offer as means of verification);

-A full range of computer skills; the expert will be expected to be travelling with a laptop, and must be easily contactable by email while on mission.

Specific professional experience

-Experience in evaluation of development cooperation programmes;

– At least one expert should have knowledge of, and experience in, direct budget support programmes, particularly EC-funded programmes including experience in monitoring and evaluation of such programmes and in developing justification for disbursement of Budget Support funds;

-At least 6 years of relevant experience related to Employment and/or TVET development programmes including in non-EU middle income or low income countries;

Language skills

-Excellent written and spoken English

Desirable experience

-Experience in TVET planning/statistics (asset).

-Experience in TVET policy development (asset).

-Experience as team leader (asset)*.

4. LOCATION AND DURATION

 Starting period

The first mission should start tentatively before the end of May 2013.

 Foreseen finishing period or duration

The tentative end day of the first mission in Jordan is 20 June 2013. The duration of the first assignment in May/June 2013 is estimated tentatively at the total of 21 working days for each expert, including 2 days of travel and 4 home-based working days for each of the experts.

 Planning including the period for notification for placement of the staff as per art 16.4 a)

Four missions are tentatively planned within this contract, two in 2013 and two in 2014. This is linked to the plan of disbursements planned by mid and by end of the year.

 Location(s) of assignment

Mainly Amman but also some field verification missions outside Amman in Jordan.